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Contents:

• GAY HIGH SCHOOL BOOKS
• I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME
• GAYHIGHSCHOOL STORI

GAY HIGH SCHOOL BOOKS

Jordan Steffy, a gay teen, was ught on vio standg up to his bully, and the ter lled him a hero.

I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME

In November 2019, Jordan Steffy, a junr at LaPorte High School Indiana, said a fellow classmate posted a homophobic msage about him on Snapchat. When Steffy nonted the other stunt, the stunt lled him a homophobic slur. Clark, who is openly gay, cid to leave the ceremony stead of givg to the l.

"He told me that I was termated bee of my sexual orientatn and that they n't have someone that intifi as gay a learship posn, " Taylor told Insir. When Seth Owen, a high school valedictorian, was kicked out of his home for beg gay, he was worried he wouldn't be able to go to llege — until his teachers stepped .

But at home, his relig parents found out that he was gay and told him to move he applied to his dream school, Geetown Universy, the school gave him a fancial aid package that was based on his parents' e even though he was not livg wh them. "I would tell that sophomore kid to hold their head high, roll their shoulrs back and be exactly who they are, " Owen told NBC News.

GAYHIGHSCHOOL STORI

Keegan Roberts, a gay teenager, has bee one of the youngt elected officials the US at 19. It worked, and Roberts was elected to the cy uncil and beme one of the youngt openly gay elected officials the untry. A lawyer for the school nied the speech was blocked bee Young was gog to e out as gay, but bee he "didn't munite wh school admistrators and his parents and ed appropriate humor , " the Coloradoan LGBTQ advocy group named Out Boulr jumped and offered Young a safe space to give his valedictorian speech.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda and The Mistn of Cameron Post have been turned to blockbter films, and jt about every YA agent out there has “own-voic LGBTQ+ stori” on their mancript wish list. My purt engagement wh Texas petivens me between my sophomore and junr years of high school, when my fay moved om the far-wt town of El Paso to a larger cy the eastern part of the state.

Interpretive performance wasn’t a skill that translated naturally to any real-life enavor, but speech and drama was an valuable safe haven for me and many other closeted kids the pre-Ellen bad old days, when the only right way to be gay was to make sure no one ever found out. Perhaps you’re thkg: Isn’t a gay kid hidg drama club kd of like a Jewish person hidg a Klezmer band?

Wagner unted on me beg damaged all the ways that growg up gay 1980s Texas damaged queer kids. He unted on my isolatn, my dimished expectatns, and my ternalized homophobia—of urse I'd never tell bee dog so would out me. Wagner uld’ve been my first gay mentor and role mol, stead of nfirmatn of the worst gay stereotyp I’d been fed my whole life.

In the mid 1980s, gays were still a generally spised mory, wh no tablished place society, no clear path forward to liv of ntentment, and AIDS makg short work of so many who dared to live out and proud. Is any surprise that gay men’s moraly might be warped to ratnalize takg what you n get when you n get ? Y, sucks that, durg a certa perd of history, gay men’s prospects were so dire that they felt jtified preyg on each other.